Healthy Eating

Question 1

Malnourished

Answer 1

The condition when the body does not get a balanced diet

Question 2

Metabolic rate

Answer 2

The speed at which reactions of the body take place, particularly cellular respiration

Question 3

Inherited

Answer 3

Passed on from parents to their offspring throughout genes

Question 4

Overweight

Answer 4

Person is this if their body carries excess fat

Question 5

Antibodies

Answer 5

Drugs which destroy bacteria inside the body without damaging human cells

Question 6

Antigens

Answer 6

Do you need proteins on the surface of the cell they are recognised by the immune system as a self or non-self

Question 7

Bacteria

Answer 7

A single celled microorganism that can reproduce very rapidly many of these are useful for instance those that live in the gut, through some can cause disease

Question 8

Infectious

Answer 8

Capable of causing infection

Question 9

Immune system

Answer 9

The body System that recognises and destroys foreign cells or proteins such as invading pathogens

Question 10

Immunisation

Answer 10

Given a vaccine that developed in unity without exposure to the disease itself

Question 11

Infectious diseases

Answer 11

Diseases that can be passed from one person to another

Question 12

Microorganism

Answer 12

Microscopic organisms such as bacteria, viruses and fungi

Question 13

MRSA

Answer 13

Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus. An antibiotic resistant bacterium

Question 14

Obese

Answer 14

Very overweight, a person with a BMI of over 30

Question 15

Pathogens

Answer 15

Micro organisms which cause disease

Question 16

Vaccination

Answer 16

Introducing dead or inactive pathogens into the body in order to stimulate white blood cells to produce antibodies that destroy the pathogen this makes the person immune to the future infection by this pathogen